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BOB ELLIOTT, QMI Agency

TORONTO - All the important eyes will be on the pitching mound at the Rogers Centre on Tuesday and Wednesday night.

The king, general manager Alex Anthopoulos, and all the king’s men, manager John Farrell and pitching coach Bruce Walton, will be watching and evaluating.

How would Romero (@RickyRo24) fare on Tweeting Tuesdays after his seven walks against the Tampa Bay Rays? Well, he took an 8-1 lead into the sixth before giving up a two-run homer to Chris Davis. He pitched six innings allowing four runs on six hits and a walk, while fanning seven.

How will Brandon Morrow (@2Morrow23) bounce back on non-tweeting Wednesday from when he lasted 10 hitters, retiring two Texas Rangers on Friday?

If both are back to normal — Romero throws strikes as he did allowing one run in 8 1/3 innings in a win over the Boston Red Sox earlier this season and Morrow resembles the form he displayed in three-hitter against the New York Mets — then the Jays could skip a starter.

The Jays could skip Drabek, who allowed nine runs on eight hits and three walks Sunday in Arlington. That would allow them to go with Alvarez, Hutchison and Romero against the Boston Red Sox, rather than have Romero and Morrow both pitch next week on seven days rest.

“Nothing has been decided yet,” manager John Farrell told reporters. “We’re monitoring everything. We have the ability to adjust over the next week because of the two off-days. We’ll see how we come out of the next two days, how guys (Romero and Morrow) are physically. If we decide to keep them on regular rest and choose to hold back one of the other guys.”

Presently the Red Sox are scheduled to see Alvarez, Drabek and Hutchison.

Will it be status quo for the Boston series?

“Not necessarily, no,” Farrell said. “If our rotation maintains what they’ve done for the majority of this year, the off-day Thursday, plus the off-day Monday ... my guess is we’ll be ready to make an adjustment shortly.”

The calendar turns to June on Friday.

This weekend is not August or September, a time for mix-and-match juggling of starters to make sure a starter doesn’t miss facing a contender.

Our favourite alteration was in 1990 when then-manager Cito Gaston inserted reliever John Candelaria into the rotation to go with regulars John Cerutti, Dave Stieb, Jimmy Key, David Wells and Todd Stottlemyre — for a six-man group.

All so Stieb could face the Yanks twice.

The date of Candelaria’s first start? Aug. 15.

We think the Jays should stick with Drabek.

Three starts ago he was impressive holding the Yankees to one run over seven innings. Two starts ago he held Tampa Bay to two runs in six innings.

He didn’t lose it all in one bad afternoon outing in Arlington.

Same for Romero and Morrow.

Drabek does not have a full year under his belt, so the nod will always go to established starters.

It’s kind of a strike zone. We recall the spring of 1984 when Montreal Expos back-up Bobby Ramos argued with Pete Rose that his strike zone was different than Rose’s.

Strike zones are a topic for another day, for no one questioned plate ump Doug Eddings’ zone — outside of a few hitters and catcher Matt Wieters, who was ejected in the fifth.

There are other factors the Jays will consider.

Like innings pitched. A year ago Hutchison pitched 1491/3 innings at class-A Lansing, class-A Dunedin and double-A New Hampshire. They’re comfortable seeing him bump that total by 10 innings or so. Alvarez threw 160 innings at Dunedin, New Hampshire and with the Jays.

“There will be a little bit of a progression from that,” Farrell said of Hutchison. “Depending how he feels, how he maintains his strength throughout the second half, we’ll see.

“Alvarez has a higher innings count since he pitched through the month of September, so he has a few more innings under his belt.”

With the demotion of left-fielder Eric Thames it means two/ninths of the Jays opening day lineup in Cleveland is now in triple-A Las Vegas. Thames joins first baseman Adam Lind there.

Lefty Brett Cecil, a member in good standing of the rotation until the final day of the spring, is at New Hampshire.

Did these guys pick the wrong guys?

Lind was the first baseman against zero competition, while Thames beat out Travis Snider for the job in left.

What put both hitters in trouble was the fact that neither produced to the level the Jays expected.